Archive for the tag "red ring of death"
Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Posted in Hot, Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 18 Comments »
VentureBeat's posted a lengthy article going into depth on Xbox 360's red ring of comedy woes. Snip:
Microsoft replaced these machines for free under the warranty that it announced on July ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 22 Comments »
Oh dear. English newspaper The Daily Mirror is reporting that Xbox 360 Elite consoles are also suffering from the now infamous RroD.
The report also says that Microsoft will face a ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Trade, Xbox 360 | 28 Comments »
Speaking at the Design Automation Conference in California this week, Bryan Lewis, research vice president and chief analyst at Gartner, said that the reason Microsoft was forced to admit Xbox ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Retail, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
According to this, SquareTrade, the company that made headlines earlier this month for claiming that Xbox 360 has a hardware failure rate of around 16 percent, has now made a ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Microsoft's responded to a warranty firm that claimed that 16 percent of Xbox 360s it covered end up broken, based on a sample of 1,000 machines. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft wasn't exactly ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
According to this, warrantee firm SquareTrade has reported that, based on 1,000 warrantees, Xbox 360 has a current failure of 16.4 percent, 60 percent of which is the much-publicised red ...
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